Selected reporting

"3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches"
WIRED. May 21, 2025​​
"The Fate of Denver’s Last Slaughterhouse Is on the Ballot"
Civil Eats. Oct 23, 2024.​​
​"Can affordable housing for Indigenous communities work?"
High Country News. Feb 27, 2024.​​
"They got jobs in the growing solar industry – but the reality was less sunny than they expected." 
​The Guardian. August 9, 2023. ​​​
"As food insecurity soars in north Denver, a Latina-led rapid response team is supporting the city’s most vulnerable families." The Counter. July 20, 2020. ​​
"The mother-daughter duo fighting fossil fuels in Colorado."
High Country News. Oct 8, 2024. ​
"North Denver’s green space paradox: Will a billion-dollar infrastructure project heal a Colorado community — or displace its residents?"
High Country News. December 1, 2023. ​
​"A Colorado city put a cap on new housing – and proved why it doesn’t work." 
​The Guardian. August 3, 2023. ​​
​"This Tiny Fishing Town Was Poisoned By a Coal Plant. The Government Is Trying to Replace it With a Mine." VICE World News. March 25, 2021. ​​
"How Some Women Are Remaking the Workplace to Better Suit Their Lives." 
The New York Times. September 10, 2021. ​​
"This Yoga Co-Op Is Diversifying Teacher Training." Outside. July 31, 2020. ​

Selected Essays

"The Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin." NYT Magazine. 
"Madras Cloth Unites the World​." Harper's Bazaar.​​
"The Many Meanings of Family Estrangement​." Harper's Bazaar. ​​​
"Functionally White: What I Didn't Say About Being South Asian in Uganda." Off Assignment. 
"Signs of Life." Hazlitt. (Nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award. Was also a Longreads Top 5 Pick of the Week)​​
"What Runs Beneath." Guernica. ​​​
​"To the Driver in Uganda who was not Godfrey." ​Off Assignment.  
​(included in "Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us," an anthology from Algonquin you can order here.)​​
​"Reasons I Wish to Wed Plantain." ​The Offing.  
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"Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis." LitHub
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"Room Service Economics: Seven Principles." Bat City Review. Issue 16. 2020. ("Notable" in Best American Essays 2021)
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​"Bone Memories." The Threepenny Review. Issue 156, Winter 2019​. (Print only, "Notable" in Best American Essays 2020)​​

Interviews

“The revenge of Big Tech: a Q&A with novelist and reporter Vauhini Vara.” High Country News. May 1, 2022. Web and print.

"A Burmese American Family History That Weaves Legacy, Mythology, and Ghosts: A Conversation with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint." Electric Literature. Aug 26, 2021. Web. 

"I Spent Much of My Career Listening to White Folks Complain About Africa and Africans': an interview with Stephanie Kimou." GEN Mag. Sept 1, 2020. Web. 

"Leslie Jamison is Hauling out her Emotional Baggage." Electric Literature. September 23, 2019. Web.

​"What the World Demands of You: The Millions interviews Margo Jefferson." The Millions. September 26, 2018. Web.
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"Chigozie Obioma Wants to Write a 'Paradise Lost' for the Igbo People." Electric Literature. January 8. 2019. Web.​​